The Youth Participation Officer has a Scotland-wide remit and will visit schools and youth services which have deaf* children and young people aged between 10 to 18 years old. Workshops will be delivered covering topics such as identity, citizenship, accessibility; as well as educating them about the BSL (Scotland) Act 2015 and what their rights are as deaf young people. We also support the Youth National Advisory Group and their elected representatives in ensuring the voice of young deaf people are incorporated in work around the Act.
Deaf Action also provides British Sign Language (BSL) Awareness courses to public bodies and ensures the needs of people who have BSL as their first language are understood, recognised and incorporated appropriately into planning.